So for Day 9 we first took a 3 hour bus ride from Andorra back to Barcelona to the airport for a flight to our next destination – Zurich, Switzerland!! We arrived in the afternoon and had great views of the Alps on flying in. Amazing!!

After we got checked into the hotel we grabbed an Uber to the restaurant Blindekuh – for Dinner in the Dark.  This restaurant actually employees as their waiters blind or partially sighted people. It was the first of such restaurants in Europe and has been around for 20 years.  To make the challenge even harder, not that a completely pitch black room doesn’t make it difficult to begin with,  we all had to wear white shirts. You got points deducted if you had any spots on your shirt that were larger than the size of a euro coin.

So the first appetizer was a Buratta (soft cheese like mozzarella)  with a melon and pinenuts and some other ingredients which we missed 😆.

Next course was a soup. Not easy to do in complete darkness!  He only ingredients out of the 10 that were in it that we thought were onions, radishes and chili.  Very tricky.

Main course had a pasta type face which was actually a rice based,  The main components was a figure of some sort. It was very difficult to identify the inside building however. Many people thought it was a fish or some mushroom however the main component was actually a smoked tofu with some mushrooms mixed in. The tofu we did not get. There were also sun dried tomatoes which we did get!

Finally, for dessert there was with a whipped cream and appricots with something that tasted  like granola at the base.

So despite the fact that we missed a number of ingredients on each individual dish apparently we did very well. Steve grouped the parts of the meal for the points breakdown.  He group appetizer and dessert together with one being savory and the other being sweet. There is a definite difference of people who can identify savory versus sweet and sometimes it’s difficult for people to do both. Fortunately for us apparently we have sensitive palette’s because Steve said with all of the food tasting challenges we swept them all (we are the first team, since he has been doing the dinner in the dark challenges, to win points in ALL of the dinner challenges) meaning were in the top five of each one, thus receiving good points!

We also had to identify an object in the room which was the cheer we were sitting on. We had to draw a picture of what we thought the chair looked like when we got out of the dark room. That was still slightly difficult because we did not know the object he wanted us to draw until after we came out.

Lastly in relation to our white shirts., Kelsey, Maribeth and I all had zero point loss because our shirts were perfectly clean at the end. Amazing!!  It probably helped that I pulled an Erkel (Google it anyone under 30 who reads this 😂) and pulled my pants up to about my chest minimizing exposed surface area of the shirt! 😜  Fully within the rules of the game. With Steve, you need to know how to play to the letter without cheating!! By the way here is an exclusive photo of the three teams at our dinner table!

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After dinner it was a trip back to the hotel and pack up for our next trip tomorrow which was a boat ride to the city of Lucerne, Switzerland.